(even the German Autobahn are not much more than glorified 2-lane poorly lit highways).
I was underwhelmed by the Autobahn. First "No one passes on the right". True, instead there's a lineup of cars in the left lane going no faster than the three cars on the right.
"Germans are such great drivers" On a two days trip I saw no fewer than 3 major wrecks on the Autobahn. I'd be lucky to see one a year in Canada. This of course led to:
"No speed limit" Due to the wrecks and other factors, "Stau" (traffic jam) is a word you become familiar with hearing on the radio. Sitting on the Autobahn with no speed limit, going no faster than 10 km/h. And all those "drivers cars" all equipped with manuals? Yeah, even the left leg of the native European drivers get tired after 20km of Stau.
"Super roads": So we're driving along the autobahn (which at this point I though was just nothing more than an over-hyped 4-lane divided highway) when suddenly it drops to a two lane un-divided highway. Of course it took a while for the native European driver to notice because lane markings for opposing traffic is the same as lanes in the same direction (Seriously guys, start using yellow paint).
I think Windows eight will suck for no other reason than it doesn't follow mod2. You only ever purchase the mod2 of windows. 98 sucked 98 2nd edition didn't me/2000 xp/vista/seven there is a shit version before a non-shit version historically speaking. Though some features look nice. Perhaps this new filesystem will be worth it's weight in diamonds.
Aside from their unrelated NT vs Win9x heritage and targeted audiences (Consumer:WinME, business:2000), Windows Me came out September 14, 2000. Windows 2000 came out 17 February 2000.
Windows Me was Windows 98 third edition. Given the jump from NT6, Windows 2000 was "Mod1" using your terminology and Windows XP was "Mod2". All things considered Windows 2000 was pretty damn good.
Main problem at the time was users were clinging on to DOS. Even though ME still had a DOS based boot system, it dissalowed real-mode drivers from loading in Autoexec.bat and config.sys. Users hated this but it was necessary to prime users for the eventual consumer move over to NT based Windows.
Windows 2000 was a huge jump from NT6, or Win9x using different driver models than NT (though it uses WDM that can be used in Win98 many vendors clung to VxD), but offering USB support, plug and play, etc. As has always been the case with NT it requires more RAM to run well compared to Win9x. Many cheap computers at the turn of the century were offered with 32 or 64MB RAM, which didn't run 2000 very well.
I recently posted a video of a portion of a motorcycle trip I took on YouTube (http://youtu.be/gQbwJjcO2N4 if anyone cares;). The audio consisted exclusively of the sound of my motorcycle engine and wind noise (through the really, really crappy microphone on my camera) -- no music mixed in after the fact, no voice over, just motorcycle engine and wind noise -- and the video was all shot by me, on the road. A
Factor in the marketing scam of "centrino" which customers thought meant a certain model CPU, but really meant Intel CPU (Pentium M or better) + Intel Chipset + Intel Wifi. Throw in a 75 cent GPU and you have a laptop that consumers clawed over each other to get.
Even though Intel has a history of making garbage GPUs.
First foray was Intel 740 which was a standalone AGP card. What a joke.
i810 is an integrated version of the GPU, and is pretty crappy. Doesn't even support VESA modes above 640x480x16.
Generations of crappy integrated solutions branded "Exxxtreme graphics"
GMA910 Which Intel forced Microsoft to qualify for Vista Capable even though it was physically incapable of running WDDM drivers and thus couldn't run Aero. Lots of pissed off customers and OEMs and lots of lawsuits. I think they had warehouses full of these things and they were trying to foist them off. This crappy chip popped up again for the Celeron-M in the original 7" EeePC, as well as some early 9 and 10 inch models.
GMA950 represents the bare minimum that can run Aero. It was also forced on generations of Atom users when Intel tried to block nVidia out of the platform (why would users want accelerated HD video on an anemic CPU...)
GMA500 Based on a PowerVR core, the specs are actually good, but it had horrible driver support under Windows and Linux. This was on Z-series Atoms.
Larrabee never panned out as a dedicated GPU either.
And in almost every case an Intel GPU underperforms an equivalent bargain bin integrated GPU from AMD/ATI or nVidia. Most end users do 2d desktop software, and Video viewing, so they aren't demanding users, but the Intel GMA represents poor performance value. I think GMA stands for "Gimp along Media Adapter" or "Garbage Media Adapter". I think some of their more recent attempts are a bit better, but I hate the software associated with whatever's on my i5 company laptop.
That's the deluxe "Amplified electronic testers (informally called electrical tester pens, test pens, or voltage detectors)", and I've actually seen functional versions at the dollar store.
Anyways, plug in the lights, and trace the wires from the live wire on the plug through the set till it doesn't light or just go side to side of all the sockets. No removing bulbs required until you find the bad one.
I thought the Mac clones came about as a desperate attempt to drum up business as market-share dwindled. It was a sign of problems rather than the cause.
I agree! I haven't seen any creep in the Starter specs from MS, so they are the same as they were 2 years ago (1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, anemic Atom), which is almost the same as it was 3.5 years ago except the hard drive went up to 250GB from 160GB. And 3.5 years ago the machines were considered under-powered!
Why not offer Home Premium at an attractive price for netbooks that aren't as low end?
PCMCIA has been obsolete for like 15 years replaced with identical form factor Cardbus cards. Not only that but Cardbus has been obsolete for 5 years replaced with Expresscard, which itself isn't that popular because most people use USB for add-on peripherals these days.
So really they are comparing it to an old obsolete format.
If the computer is used as a desktop at home, that means one less cable to disconnect when going portable (assuming like most consumers, you don't have a docking station).
I used to be a big fan of AAs in cameras, but I'm pleased with the performance of my Li-Ion in my new camera. Battery management is a lot easier. I also picked up a spare battery for $5 off Amazon.
Autorun / Autoplay should be permanently disabled anyways. I believe Vista/7 are a bit tighter than XP as far as Autorun, and XP is slightly better than nothing
The default action in XP is to execute autorun on CDs. This is how Sony rootkits get spread, and poses a hazard with U3 drives which have a partition that appears like a CD.
With flash drives by default XP will load the "what do you want to do?" window and the first option will be the autorun. However if you cancel this dialog, and at any point double click the drive in explorer it will execute the autorun anyways. I think Win7 is less big on running autoruns on a flash drive, and will now ask by default on a CD.
A factory formatted drive may appear as all 0's (that's how a new SD card appeared to me), however a drive reformatted by traditional software will still show the previous contents (except where the FAT or equivalent was overwritten)
I repeat, a full-format does not zero the drive. A full format just performs a READ-verify on the volume. You need DBAN, Eraser, Roadkil's Disk Wipe, or similar to securely wipe the drive (1 pass is sufficient).
Also, True crypt doesn't change the modified date of the container file when you mount and use the volume, though not having it appear "stale" is a good idea.
And of course there was the fact that by the late 90's Netscape was incredibly unstable and slow. People liked to pretend it was a MS conspiracy to make future versions of netscape unstable baked in MS operating systems. I preferred IE (with all it's flaws) at that time because it was more stable. This is all relative. Win9x was unstable and IE was unstable, but both less unstable than Netscape.
Netscape remained in shambles for years before Firefox rose from the ashes. So IE stagnated. It was all Netscape's share to lose.
Napster made it accessible. FTP you had to use clunky aggregators, and usually you had to upload content first to get your download quota, so you have to wait while you upload pseudorandomdata.mp3 at 33.6kbps before downloading your file.
These are some of the details that we would like from "inside the world's largest LAN" rather than pictures of the hazy air. How the infrastructure was actually set up.
What's bizarre is that original theory was electricity was the movement of positively charged particles. It ended up being negatively charged particles moving around. With most science when you make a mistake you correct it. Circuits? Nope, we continue to pretend it's positively charged particles moving from positive potential to negative potential.
A brushless squirrel cage AC motor itself is better than a DC motor, regardless of where the power source for the VSD comes from, so the parent's original statement is still correct. Incidentally while the AC motors are more trouble free, I've had more problems with high horsepower AC drives than DC drives.
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My favorite is this http://www.youtube.com/user/enyatv?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/3/_wM7A6Eht7s . Apparently WMG blocked a video on Enya's official channel...
(even the German Autobahn are not much more than glorified 2-lane poorly lit highways).
I was underwhelmed by the Autobahn. First "No one passes on the right". True, instead there's a lineup of cars in the left lane going no faster than the three cars on the right.
"Germans are such great drivers" On a two days trip I saw no fewer than 3 major wrecks on the Autobahn. I'd be lucky to see one a year in Canada. This of course led to:
"No speed limit" Due to the wrecks and other factors, "Stau" (traffic jam) is a word you become familiar with hearing on the radio. Sitting on the Autobahn with no speed limit, going no faster than 10 km/h. And all those "drivers cars" all equipped with manuals? Yeah, even the left leg of the native European drivers get tired after 20km of Stau.
"Super roads": So we're driving along the autobahn (which at this point I though was just nothing more than an over-hyped 4-lane divided highway) when suddenly it drops to a two lane un-divided highway. Of course it took a while for the native European driver to notice because lane markings for opposing traffic is the same as lanes in the same direction (Seriously guys, start using yellow paint).
I think Windows eight will suck for no other reason than it doesn't follow mod2. You only ever purchase the mod2 of windows. 98 sucked 98 2nd edition didn't me/2000 xp/vista/seven there is a shit version before a non-shit version historically speaking. Though some features look nice. Perhaps this new filesystem will be worth it's weight in diamonds.
Aside from their unrelated NT vs Win9x heritage and targeted audiences (Consumer:WinME, business:2000), Windows Me came out September 14, 2000. Windows 2000 came out 17 February 2000.
Windows Me was Windows 98 third edition. Given the jump from NT6, Windows 2000 was "Mod1" using your terminology and Windows XP was "Mod2". All things considered Windows 2000 was pretty damn good.
Main problem at the time was users were clinging on to DOS. Even though ME still had a DOS based boot system, it dissalowed real-mode drivers from loading in Autoexec.bat and config.sys. Users hated this but it was necessary to prime users for the eventual consumer move over to NT based Windows.
Windows 2000 was a huge jump from NT6, or Win9x using different driver models than NT (though it uses WDM that can be used in Win98 many vendors clung to VxD), but offering USB support, plug and play, etc. As has always been the case with NT it requires more RAM to run well compared to Win9x. Many cheap computers at the turn of the century were offered with 32 or 64MB RAM, which didn't run 2000 very well.
Please watch the video you linked again! There's music credits!
I recently posted a video of a portion of a motorcycle trip I took on YouTube (http://youtu.be/gQbwJjcO2N4 if anyone cares ;). The audio consisted exclusively of the sound of my motorcycle engine and wind noise (through the really, really crappy microphone on my camera) -- no music mixed in after the fact, no voice over, just motorcycle engine and wind noise -- and the video was all shot by me, on the road. A
That's the strangest sounding engine / wind noise I've ever heard. This sounds more like Engine / wind noise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoBro-dyDPs
was it a Harley? I believe they have (copywritten/trademarked) the engine noise.
They have a copyright on a stalling lawnmower sound?
BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB SPUTTER SPUTTER SPUTTER SPUTTER VROOOM VRROOOOOM BLUB BLUB BLUB BLUB
I would apologize for shouting but no one apologizes to me for having the straight exhaust on their stalling lawnmower Harley.
McAfee does more than that, it just makes Intel's own computers stop working.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/2003
Remote desktop has been included in Windows Server products for almost 12 years.
I've heard similar things around their GPUs (I'm thinking older ones).
i945 chipset costs $x
i945 chipset + GMA950 = $x + $0.75
Factor in the marketing scam of "centrino" which customers thought meant a certain model CPU, but really meant Intel CPU (Pentium M or better) + Intel Chipset + Intel Wifi. Throw in a 75 cent GPU and you have a laptop that consumers clawed over each other to get.
Even though Intel has a history of making garbage GPUs.
First foray was Intel 740 which was a standalone AGP card. What a joke.
i810 is an integrated version of the GPU, and is pretty crappy. Doesn't even support VESA modes above 640x480x16.
Generations of crappy integrated solutions branded "Exxxtreme graphics"
GMA910 Which Intel forced Microsoft to qualify for Vista Capable even though it was physically incapable of running WDDM drivers and thus couldn't run Aero. Lots of pissed off customers and OEMs and lots of lawsuits. I think they had warehouses full of these things and they were trying to foist them off. This crappy chip popped up again for the Celeron-M in the original 7" EeePC, as well as some early 9 and 10 inch models.
GMA950 represents the bare minimum that can run Aero. It was also forced on generations of Atom users when Intel tried to block nVidia out of the platform (why would users want accelerated HD video on an anemic CPU...)
GMA500 Based on a PowerVR core, the specs are actually good, but it had horrible driver support under Windows and Linux. This was on Z-series Atoms.
Larrabee never panned out as a dedicated GPU either.
And in almost every case an Intel GPU underperforms an equivalent bargain bin integrated GPU from AMD/ATI or nVidia. Most end users do 2d desktop software, and Video viewing, so they aren't demanding users, but the Intel GMA represents poor performance value. I think GMA stands for "Gimp along Media Adapter" or "Garbage Media Adapter". I think some of their more recent attempts are a bit better, but I hate the software associated with whatever's on my i5 company laptop.
The BEST way to test it is something like this:
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/usen/electrical-test-tools/electrical-testers/fluke-1ac-ii.htm?PID=56048&trck=1acii
That's the deluxe "Amplified electronic testers (informally called electrical tester pens, test pens, or voltage detectors)", and I've actually seen functional versions at the dollar store.
Anyways, plug in the lights, and trace the wires from the live wire on the plug through the set till it doesn't light or just go side to side of all the sockets. No removing bulbs required until you find the bad one.
I thought the Mac clones came about as a desperate attempt to drum up business as market-share dwindled. It was a sign of problems rather than the cause.
I agree! I haven't seen any creep in the Starter specs from MS, so they are the same as they were 2 years ago (1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, anemic Atom), which is almost the same as it was 3.5 years ago except the hard drive went up to 250GB from 160GB. And 3.5 years ago the machines were considered under-powered!
Why not offer Home Premium at an attractive price for netbooks that aren't as low end?
PCMCIA has been obsolete for like 15 years replaced with identical form factor Cardbus cards. Not only that but Cardbus has been obsolete for 5 years replaced with Expresscard, which itself isn't that popular because most people use USB for add-on peripherals these days.
So really they are comparing it to an old obsolete format.
If the computer is used as a desktop at home, that means one less cable to disconnect when going portable (assuming like most consumers, you don't have a docking station).
I used to be a big fan of AAs in cameras, but I'm pleased with the performance of my Li-Ion in my new camera. Battery management is a lot easier. I also picked up a spare battery for $5 off Amazon.
Autorun / Autoplay should be permanently disabled anyways. I believe Vista/7 are a bit tighter than XP as far as Autorun, and XP is slightly better than nothing
The default action in XP is to execute autorun on CDs. This is how Sony rootkits get spread, and poses a hazard with U3 drives which have a partition that appears like a CD.
With flash drives by default XP will load the "what do you want to do?" window and the first option will be the autorun. However if you cancel this dialog, and at any point double click the drive in explorer it will execute the autorun anyways. I think Win7 is less big on running autoruns on a flash drive, and will now ask by default on a CD.
A factory formatted drive may appear as all 0's (that's how a new SD card appeared to me), however a drive reformatted by traditional software will still show the previous contents (except where the FAT or equivalent was overwritten)
I repeat, a full-format does not zero the drive. A full format just performs a READ-verify on the volume. You need DBAN, Eraser, Roadkil's Disk Wipe, or similar to securely wipe the drive (1 pass is sufficient).
Also, True crypt doesn't change the modified date of the container file when you mount and use the volume, though not having it appear "stale" is a good idea.
For all intensive purposes your saying the same thing.
Moron.
Don't you mean "you're" instead of "your" ?
Maroon.
Irregardless we know what he mean's
And of course there was the fact that by the late 90's Netscape was incredibly unstable and slow. People liked to pretend it was a MS conspiracy to make future versions of netscape unstable baked in MS operating systems. I preferred IE (with all it's flaws) at that time because it was more stable. This is all relative. Win9x was unstable and IE was unstable, but both less unstable than Netscape.
Netscape remained in shambles for years before Firefox rose from the ashes. So IE stagnated. It was all Netscape's share to lose.
Napster made it accessible. FTP you had to use clunky aggregators, and usually you had to upload content first to get your download quota, so you have to wait while you upload pseudorandomdata.mp3 at 33.6kbps before downloading your file.
hopefully you don't have to live in the bus full time.
These are some of the details that we would like from "inside the world's largest LAN" rather than pictures of the hazy air. How the infrastructure was actually set up.
if it was a one ohm conductor there would be 48 amps through it.
I've twice seen a socket wrench that was welded to 460V. One was across the busbars on the secondary side of a transformer.
What's bizarre is that original theory was electricity was the movement of positively charged particles. It ended up being negatively charged particles moving around. With most science when you make a mistake you correct it. Circuits? Nope, we continue to pretend it's positively charged particles moving from positive potential to negative potential.
A brushless squirrel cage AC motor itself is better than a DC motor, regardless of where the power source for the VSD comes from, so the parent's original statement is still correct. Incidentally while the AC motors are more trouble free, I've had more problems with high horsepower AC drives than DC drives.